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my hair, a continuing saga

I haven't written about my hair in a while. Lucky you.The truth of it is: I've been pretty pleased with my hair for about two years. It's been easy to take care of, I've had other things on my mind, and I was comfortable with the way it looked.But time marches onward and I have become disillusioned with my hair. I look a little harsher than I wish to look and my short, cropped hair is beginning to draw attention to my older, harder-looking face.So, yeah...looking like this:

only without the Botox.

Have decided I'd like to shoot for this:

but am terribly concerned that I may lapse into this:

when I'd love to have the guts to look like this:

I'm afraid it would be terribly butch on me.Plus, I'd be divorced as K would pack his bags and leave. No. Wait. He'd throw me out.

I am nearly certain that there is no way to achieve perfect Meg Ryan hair. She is a GoddESS. Also, a hairdresser once told me that the hair in the back grows faster because there are more blood vessels down there. Which may be a load of crap but somehow short do's end up like mullets as they grow out.

My solution? Shorter in the back than the front. Grows out relatively painlessly.

Meg Ryan's hair only works because of the highlights (I know that from trying it the hard way.) I also presume that Sinead O'Connor's look WILL not go well for you as it didn't for me either--I spent 3 painful months being mistaken for a boy when I was 12. And the mullett is always a particular fear for me, too. Which is why the gal who cuts my hair repeats after me: "long in front, shorter in back" every time I see her.

Kim et. al. are right - Meg hair is impossible in the real world. The closest you can get requires a cocktail of fifty-seven products, all made from (to quote Phoebe Buffet) "from the seed of a righteous man". (That's my theory on why the shit is so expensive, anyway.) And even then, with the products in just the right proportion, it only looks somewhat Meg-like for three days. Sigh.

I like the "goal 'do", but having had something similar in the past, be prepared for very frequent trims, or you will quickly venture into Bradyville. Like, in three weeks.